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Military Robots Get Machine Guns

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 1, 2004 @03:05PM from the remote-war dept.

javaxman writes "Next spring, the U.S. military is expecting to deploy Talon robots with machine guns. They can also be equiped with rocket launchers. Really, they're remote-controlled 'bots, not true autonomous 'bots, so you can save the Skynet jokes for, um, some day in the not-to-distant future. This is just the first, or maybe second step. As for me, I just want to see arena matches between gangs of these suckers. Robot wars indeed!"

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Re:In Korea by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 15:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

> Anyone who mods this funny is a fucking moron

Good thing they modded you troll, troll
http://www.whitehouse.org by agent · 2004-12-01 18:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://www.whitehouse.org
Re:No where near replacing soldiers. by ocelotbob · 2004-12-01 20:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

For the short term, do what I'm doing and suck a cock for freedom ;)
Gods, being bi is great.

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Re:In Korea by compro01 · 2004-12-02 02:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

already done!

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Re:In Korea by Mortlath · 2004-12-02 08:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But it is useful to those that don't understand the "jokes" on this site or at least want to know the joke's origin. I know I've used it from time to time.